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Artist (n.) is marked by a combination of serenity and gloom, of physical health and some physiomental ill health.
Bushido (n.) is a morality based in the idea that it is more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so.
Bushido (n.) is a political science of the heart designed to control discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others.
Bushido (n.) is a supreme masculine morality in that, because it is based on the appearance of bravery and health rather than actual bravery or health, it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men.
Captivity (n.) is utterly destructive. When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.
The Cicada's (n.) untiring cry pierces the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
Cruelty (n.) is never born of the suffering of others (which makes one's spirit delicate, bright, peaceful), rather, it always comes into being on a beautiful spring afternoon when one is vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn.
Curiosity (n.) is without virtue and might in fact be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
Death (n.) is no longer every heroic in our age.
Decadence (n.) , in earnest, gives life force as nothing else does. It makes one alert as nothing else does.
Eternity (n.) is impossible to touch with one hand and touch life with the other.